Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-28

sold anything to-day!
Yes, some caliko an a couple w
plow pints'
cWho keeps your books?'
"Haint got none
How do You know how you stand?'
"By lookin round when we get
up
You're pert leetle cretur, now
aint YOU? Which way is it to where |
want to go?'
Straight ahead.
"One Of you or both 90 with me;
you KANT sell nothin' mo this even
ing
"Well, don kere eff do, said Big
Bill
AN I'm agreeable Little Bill re-
marked "Will your bread tray hold
us9"
Bread tray? What do you meanP
It's blackboard. =
"Oh, skuze me. Failin to see its
hons tuck it fer er doe board.
But that don't make it a bread
tray, she replied.
yes, it does, said Little Bill, "fur
YOU know bread tray amt nothin'
mo Altti IL hpAEl bOdihs
my conshuns alive! tnrning to Big
Bill, "the child is gettin' pearter an
pearter. Wall, shet up your contrap-
shun, an les 60 The folks are ex-
pectin' me this month, an don't want
'em to wait supper
That night while the two partners
we're sitting in their cuddy hole, Big
Bill, getting up to stretch his long
legs, said.
Little Bill, she hits me as bein' a
monStrous fine woman. How does she
hit you?'
"Saps me the same way, Big Bill.
When look mt them black eyes Nv
her'n feel like goin' cut in the woods
an dancin'.'
Little Biz mebby that's what killed
her husband Mout have danced him
self to death.
Didn't know but he mout have been
eat in two by one NV his razor-back
hogs, Little Bill replied "S'pose we
90 out Sunday an shine round "a little
with her.
ON iino you
They called on her the next Sun
! day, and it was such an odd thing for
two Bills to 20 calling that many OF
the ncighbors came and looked in
upon them. Many attentions were
bestowed upon the Widow Blake
and especially SO by young
fellow who owned spayened horse
and buggy with red wheels, yet she
seemed best pleased with the two
! Bills. She invited them to 90 to church
with her which they did, and as she
walked between them, no one, even
the most obseryant-eycd old maid,
could have decided upon her fayorite.
That night when the cob pipes had
been lighted in the cuddy-hole, Big
! Bill said
Shes gittiu better lookin' all the
time,
Yes, replied the dwarf IAN hcI
eyes amt losin none NV their snap as
YOU 90 along Tell you what's fact
Big Bill, I'll be hanged if don't b'levC
I'm in love with her,
"Podner," replied Big Bill, 1--WE ah
still in the Same boat, fur | love hel
myself Shake.
They arose and warmly SHOOT
hands
They called on the widow again tho
following Sunday, and again she
walked between them to church. jus
before parting that evening, Che tive
| Bills held her hands, changing abou
from right to left 70 that there NIGH
be no appearance Of Partially.
Never seed woman git better an
| better lOokin faster than she do, sale
Big Bill, when they reached home an'
lighted their pipes. Puts me IN mn
NV young deer running toward yon
GIFTS pulitzer as it comes near Lool
here. Little Bill, tell YOU what ! wa
thiukin' about | was thiukin' that
would AK her TO marry me.
sBlast me If want thinkiu 'b0u
doing the very same caPer myself.
Say, Little Bill
wall
I'VE KANT both marry her
That's a fact, the dwarf replied
after moments reflection. Nv ha
air Wa goin To do about it?'
I'm be dinged if hardly know,
said the giant. You've got me
| larnin' than have, SO make sum sur
gestion.
mo, / haint got mo laruin.'
wy, you told me that YOU ~pelle'
way over in the book once.
Yes, | did, replied Little Bill
"bW I've dun forgot all | knowe'
about it,
Wall never did know nothir
about il an man that has knowed AZ
has duu forgot still knows mo THAI
! fbp man that never did know